Renewable energy is a popular choice in many developed countries around the world and now the Indian government is preparing to lead developing countries into an expansive use of alternative energy resources. Specifically through solar and power technology, India is hoping to meet its future energy requirements while decreasing environmental harm; this according to the minister whose portfolio is New And Renewable Energy – Farooq Abdullah.
The government of India is ready to begin a solar energy program across the country beginning November 14, that it hopes will reduce its dependency on old energy options and thwart future environmental cleanup expenditures.
Abdullah stated that India is importing oil and coal and is spending millions of rupees doing it while huge natural resources of solar and wind are not being utilized. So with that thought in mind, India is now determined to use these innate resources, believing that it can be their solution to the climate change.
The Indian government is planning to give away large photovoltaic panels to rural dwellers throughout the country in order to provide electricity to each countryside community. Abdullah pointed out alarm that the glaciers in the Himalayan Mountain range were rapidly diminishing because of climate change.
He spoke of his own home state of Jammu and Kashmir and how it is being negatively affected. The local rivers are dwindling and glaciers are quickly being lost. He insists that they must discover a solution to these troubles of their energy requirements while also safeguarding the environment. He believes that new and renewable power will be the answer India requires.
The sun shines brightly and often across India and the solar industry sector is experiencing a marvelous amount of growth. Government plans are grand to increase the use of solar energy and raise the capacity of solar facilities to twenty GWs by the year 2020 from the current level of 2.1 MWs.
Abdullah claims the expected solar energy program will include incentives for entrepreneurs to motivate investment and reduce the expenditures of utilizing solar power on larger projects.
On a related note – the President of the Maldives’, a tiny Indian Ocean archipelago rapidly being submerged by rising ocean tides, expressed in an anxious tone, the need for India to be the standard bearer of the world for renewable energy. He called for the world’s largest democracy to lead a green revolution to cut carbon emissions.
While talking at a conference held in New Delhi on climate change the Maldives’ President discussed his diminutive nation’s defenselessness to climate changes and pleaded with its large neighbor to come to its aid. He said India has lead other nations once before in an agricultural green revolution in the 70’s and that they could do the same thing again when it came to leading the world in green energy. With India’s youth and entrepreneurial determination, he believes they are well suited to lead the way.
The United Nations Panel on Climate Change predicts that due to rising water levels many of the 1,192 low lying islands in the Indian ocean will become submerged, including the island nation of the Maldives’.
Green house gas emission targets are no longer being discussed since the developing countries have called upon industrialized countries to carry the majority of the burden. They have also asked that broader emission reductions come from all countries. There is some belief that western nations have been polluting for over a century now and should be responsible for a larger share. Not so says the Maldives’s president who says the developing world has emission rates that are beginning to rocket and they need to fall into line now.
Saying he believed in Humanity and its ingenuity, President Nasheed said countries needed to welcome renewable technologies and continue to reduce the cost of green power. Placing the small nation’s money where its mouth is he said the Maldives’ were opting for carbon neutrality within ten years and would accomplish this by converting to one hundred percent renewable energy and counterbalancing air transportation pollution.
He applauded India’s twenty billion dollar solar power plan and said he thinks the Indian government and its leadership would not be intimidated by the challenge and his country would work closely with India to develop renewable energy projects. He said he believed firmly that India would be a leader over other nations in renewable energy.
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